Amelia morse



A. MORSE.

PUZZLE BATTLE.

APPLICATION men 11111.20, |916.

Patented Aug. 8, 1916.

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PUZZLE-RATTLE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ang. 8, 1916.

Application filed April 20, 15916. Serial No. 92,376.

To all wlwm t may concern Be it known that I, AMELIA Mouse, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Puzzle-Rattle, of which lthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to games and toys, and has particular reference to nursery rattles or the like made. of celluloid, rubber or other suitable, strong, sanitary material.

Among the objects of this invention is to provide a childs plaything or rattle comprising a holder and a plurality of rotary elements supported along the holder and movable independently of each other into different positions, said movable elements having on their faces portions of nursery rhymes, pictures, or other matter of an attractive nature, and which because of the relatively movable nature of the movable elements are adapted to be so arranged as to make complete pictures or readable legends.

Another object of the invention is to provide a childs rattle or similar toy of such.

a nature as to promote the attractiveness. and amusement to the child due to the adjustability of the faces of the movable elements Y to bring them into registration according to the nature of the decoration upon said faces.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the eXact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the invention; one element being broken away to indicate the pebble therein to cause the rattle; and Fig. 2 is a diagram representing the entire lateral faces of all of the movable parts with the several different individual faces in proper alinement.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, I show a nursery rattle comprising a holder consisting of a rod 10 shown as having a ring 11 secured rigidly to each end thereof. Between the rings and journaled loosely for independent rotation upon the rod 10, are a plurality of rotary elements 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16. lWhile I show in this instance live of these elements, it is obvious that the number may be greater or less so long' as there are a plurality and adapted for independent rotation, so as to bring certain faces thereof into alinement or out of alinement as may be desired in the practice of the invention.

In carrying out this invention in a practical way I show, for example, but Vwithout meaning to be necessarily limited' by such illustration, the first threeI elements 12, 13, and 14 decorated on one side with the figure of a girl,vthe figure occupying the faces of all three of these elements. The three faces opposite the ligure of the girl are decorated with the figure of a boy, which with the figure of the girl may be given a familiar nursery name or title. Since the elements are all independently rotatable around the stem 10, it is obvious that the child may ar range the elements so that any face of one element may be brought into alinement or in the same plane with any face of the next element and so on throughout the series. Fig. 1, for example, shows the parts so arranged that the body of the girl is brought into alinement with the head and feet of the boy. The clothing of these figures may be different, and otherwise the attractiveness to the child and the utility of the device are greatly enhanced by its adaptation for registration of similar parts of different figures. It therefore constitutes a puzzle for the small child to rearrange the independently movable elements so as to'bring the figures into proper readable position. Likewise I show the last two elements 15 and 16 provided on opposite faces with the ligure of a bird and the figure of aquadruped, the figures also being, as in the other case, so formed and divided that the head or upper portion of one ligure registers with the lower portion of the other as indicated in Fig. 1. The remaining sides of the rotating elements may he decorated or provided with letters or other characters differing from the pictures,but prefera-bly of such a nature as to provide for the correlation between a face of one element and the adjacent face of the next element, in a manner similar tothe correlation between the different parts of the pictures. Furthermore, I indicate in Fig. 2 that when the pictures are properly assembled as the result of the relative rotation of the elements, the printed matter or other forms of decoration on the remaining faces of the elements will all be in legible arrangement.

The device shown herein is primarily a. childs rattle, and hence any one or all of the elements 12 to 16 may be provided with a pebble 17 or member to cause a rattling noise in connection with the hollow rotatingelement which contains it. While, therefore, the general structure of thedevice whereby it is adapted as a rattle is suitable for a small child including the sanitary and practically indestructible nature thereof, it at the same time affords unusual amusement or perhaps instruction to a child a few years older.

IVhile I show the rotating elements as of cubical form and provided with upper and lower walls 1S and 19, as well as the decorated side walls, I wish it to be understood that many other specific forms for these elements might be adopted without departing from the general scheme already set forth.

I claim:

1. The herein described puzzle rattle comprising a holder, and a plurality of independently movable sounding elements journailed for independent rotation upon said holder, said elements having formed upon alined faces thereof a plurality of sectional characters, parts of one character on certain elements being adapted to register with remaining parts of the same or a different character of other elements.

2. In a nursery rattle, the combination of a rigid holder, and a plurality of hollow sounding members journaled upon said holder, said members having plane faces adapted to register' with one another', certain of said plane faces being ornamented with figures, parts of the figures being carried by as many different elements.

AMELIA MORSE.

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